Method of manufacturing ornamental plaques.



No. 801,762. I PATENTED OCT. 10, 1905. H.L.BEAGH. METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORNAMBNTAL PLAQUES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.21.1Q05- gmm HARRY LUTHER BEACH, OF COSI-IOGTON, OHIO.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ORNAMENTAL PLAQUES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application filed January 21, 1905. Serial No. 242,078.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, HARRY LUTHERBEACH, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Coshocton, in the county of Coshocton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Method of Manufacturing Ornamental Plaques, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to improvements in the art of manufacturing lithographic plaques that are constructed of sheet metal.

Heretofore, so far as I am aware, such plaques have been either wholly in a dull or dead finish or wholly varnished. In either case the desired effect is not obtained, for while a dull finish is desirable on the picture it is not so with the border, and, on the other hand, although the border should be varnished the varnishing of the picture detracts from the appearance of the plaque.

The object in this invention is the provision of a novel and commerciallysuccessful method of manufacturing ornamental plaques, which plaques will have a dull-finished picture and a varnished or bright border, which border is in the form of and simulates a wooden frame, so that said picture will be set off and the beauty thereof enhanced by the frame.

In the accompanying drawings different steps of the method are indicated, said drawings also showing the article at the different stages resulting from such steps.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing the application of the first or ground coat to the sheet, and Fig. l is a plan view of such sheet when coated. Fig. 2 is a conventional showing of the sheet when being printed, and Fig. 2 illustrates a sheet after such printing. Fig. 3 illustrates in a conventional manner the varnishing or the application of the finishing-coat to the border of the sheet, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the sheet with the superposed protective plate and the varnish or finishing coat applied to the exposed surfaces. Fig. 4 is in like manner a conventional showing of a stamping-press for securing the proper configuration of the border to represent a frame, and Fig. 4 is a view showing the completed plaque.

In carrying out the method aflat metal sheet 5 is employed,which is first passed through a suitable coating-machine, (shown conventionally in Fig. 1,) comprising a lower supportingroller 6 and an upper applying-roller 7,where by a ground-coat is applied to one surface of said sheet. The sheet is then printed by any well-known form of lithographic press, as indicated conventionally at 8 in Fig. 2, so that a picture 9 is applied to the central portion thereof and is surrounded by a suitable ornamental border 10, the whole being in a dull or dead finish.

After the picture and border have been printed a protective plate 11 is placed over the picture so as to completely cover the same, leaving the border exposed, and the sheet with the superposed plate is then passed through another coating-machine, (indicated at 12 in Fig. 3,) by means of which a transparent shiny coat, as of varnish, is applied, this coating, however, while covering the entire exposed faces of the sheet and plate, being applied only to the border of the former, leaving the picture in adull finish. The said plate 11 is then removed, and the sheet is suitably stamped by mechanism conventionally indicated at 13 in Fig. a, whereby the border 10 is shaped into the configuration of a surrounding frame.

As a result of this method sheet-metal plaques may be made with rapidity, having the appearance of expensive pictures on canvas with surrounding wooden frames, the picture itself being in the desired dull finish, while the frame has not only a proper configuration, but also a distinct coat of varnish, serving to produce a pronounced contrast between the two elements of the plaque.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, and many advantages of the herein-described invention will be ap parent to those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. That improvementin theartof manufacturing ornamental plaques which consists in applying upon one face of a flat metal sheeta picture and surrounding ornamental border, covering said picture with a protective plate, applying to the exposed border and the plate a finishing-coat, removing the plate, and finally stamping the portion of the sheet having the border into ornamental configuration of a surrounding outstanding frame.

2. That improvement in the art of manufacturing ornamental plaques, Which consists in applying upon one face of a metal sheet a picture and an ornamental border surrounding the said picture, the border and picture having a dull finish, covering the picture With a protective plate that leaves the border exposed, then passing the sheet and superposed protective plate through varnishing mechanism to apply a finishing-varnish to the exposed border, removing the plate, and stamping the exposed border to represent a surrounding frame for thepicture.

3. That improvement in the art of manufacturing ornamental plaques Which consists in applying a ground-coat to a flat metal sheet, printing upon such sheet a picture and a sur- 

